Isa Balado: Anger in Spain after man appears to grope reporter live on air
Isa Balado: Anger in Spain after man appears to grope reporter live on air
Isa Balado was broadcasting live on air when the man walked up and appeared to touch her.
Isa Balado was reporting on a Madrid robbery on Tuesday when he walked up and appeared to touch her bottom, which he denied when she confronted him.
Ms Balado tried to continue, but was interrupted by the programme's host.
"Isa, forgive me for interrupting you... but did he just touch your bottom?" Nacho Abad asked.
The reporter confirmed it, and Mr Abad told her to put the "idiot" on camera, to which the shot moves to show both Isa Balado and the man, who was still standing with her, smiling and laughing.
"As much as you want to ask what channel we are from, do you really have to touch my bottom? I'm doing a live show and I'm working," Ms Balado told him.
The man then denied touching her, and as he walked away attempted to tickle her head.
Police later said a man had been arrested for allegedly assaulting a reporter while she was doing a live television show, in a message posted on X, formerly Twitter.
Well done to the host insisting they immediately put the "idiot" on camera.
I'm glad the host didn't let her continue after seeing what happened and called that shit out. Small glimpses of hope in humanity
Kinda, but that's almost the sad part? I don't want to say the host did anything wrong, he absolutely did not. But the fact that she tried to continue doing the story is the tradgey here.
Isa was just a woman at her job, and this entitled ass felt comfortable enough groping her to do so on camera. I'm giving a 0% chance this was the first time he has dkne doing something like this, it was just the time it was recorded. She didn't address it because there is a 100% chance she has had to deal with this behavior before. She was lucky in a sense to get this instant validation against his BS lies. It's easy enough for him to just laugh it off and keep going, but it's just so infuriating to see those sorts of laughs again and again.
The fact that this wasn't shocking to her, but was shocking to him, should be shocking to everyone else.
Yeah, it looks like she was going to put up with it in order not to interrupt but the host absolutely had her back in identifying this creepy fucker.
Well done to Spain for making a concerted effort to combat this type of behavior. I lived there for a while a decade+ ago (jesus Christ, has it been that long…) and the sexual aggression from the men was rampant and mind blowing. The women, in my experience, formed a hard exterior against this type of behavior, so there was a balance, but balance doesn’t matter when someone has to become incredibly defensive just because the other people are incredibly aggressive. So I’m glad to see some kind of reckoning with this.
I didn't see the video in the article.
https://youtu.be/7-17P0KP-bc?si=DL8zlDUkqz_A54CL
This guy didn't even try to hide it. Then tries to scratch or tickle her head when leaving.
It was strange to read an article about something recorded on video and see so many uses of "alleged" and "appears to". Then I watch the video--which, as a surprise twist, the article doesn't even include--to realize it's definitely not ambiguous!
Maybe Spanish libel laws are more strict than I'm used to, but that is some seriously cautious journalism!
Spanish news is in Spanish. This is the BBC.
Tomorrow's news: The play plays the victim on social media and his mum goes on a hunger strike in a church
It's almost funny how absolutely oblivious people like him are to their actions. Even if there wasn't a camera… he probably really thinks women are into this kind of harassment.
Men who do this sort of thing are not trying to impress women. They're trying to impress other men.
What is wrong with some people, seriously.
wE liVe iN a PosT sExiSm WorLD
It takes a special kind of stupid to do this while knowing that your country is making international headlines after a govt (?) sports official kissed an unwilling player. May he get the book thrown at him hard.
Dennis Reynolds I presume
Please, does this look anything like the D.E.N.N.I.S. system? That was clearly an amateur.